Posted on 08/09/2014 7:06:56 AM PDT by Lorianne
Russia has banned fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy imports from the US, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway, Russia's prime minister told a government meeting on Thursday.
Dmitry Medvedev said the ban was effective immediately and would last for one year.
Russian officials were on Wednesday asked to come up with a list of western agricultural products and raw materials to be banned.
The agriculture minister, Nikolai Fyodorov, said on Thursday that greater quantities of Brazilian meat and New Zealand cheese would be imported to offset the newly prohibited items. He added Moscow was in talks with Belarus and Kazakhstan to prevent the banned western foodstuffs being exported to Russia from the two countries.
The Kremlin's move comes in response to the grounding of the budget airline subsidiary of Aeroflot as a result of EU sanctions over Moscow's support for rebels in Ukraine.
Medvedev also said officials were considering a ban on European airlines flying to Asia over Siberia.
Russia is Europe's second-largest market for food and drink and has been an important consumer of Polish pig meat and Dutch fruit and vegetables. Exports of food and raw materials to Russia were worth 12.2bn (£9.7bn) in 2013, following several years of double-digit growth.
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Make products cheaper at home. The free market has a way of closing down over priced merchants.
Not to mention that Putin has the support of at least a majority who will be willing to belt-tighten to smack the West.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20070516/65597324.html
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1117497.html
http://rbth.com/articles/2010/10/06/russia_cuts_meat_imports05008.html
http://www.photius.com/countries/russia/economy/russia_economy_foreign_trade.html
But I digress. If you search on "Russia imports 40% of its food" you'll see all the articles on it.
You're Welcome
And meanwhile, we import unmarked poisoned crap from China. Why not simply eat what WE grow.
Wouldn’t substituting sources so far away incur massive shipping cost? And not everything has such a long shelf life.
I would happily pay a premium for the incredible quality of beef from Argentina, if they can work out that deal I guess that would be one bright spot for both of them.
But a lot of the other substitutions will be more costly and worse product
Lots of opportunities to get out of unprofitable contracts. Russian food prices going up.
Makes more sense to me.
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